Arachnophobia!
I saw it when I was only 8 or 9.
It gave me arachnophobia.Fight Club, for the right reasons.
I was entranced by the idea of 'hitting bottom' deliberately and pared things from my life that weren't serving me well.
"The things you own end up owning you" was major for me, and I got rid of a ton of possessions.
Another was deciding I had always wanted to build a house; I spent the next decade reading about alternative homebuilding and made a plan.
Unfortunately my job and health failed before that plan went into fruition, but going through that planning process made me reach out and grow in new areas. It really did change my life.
Now I'm older and married but have never given up on the idea of building a cordwood shack and living in it for the rest of my days.
Mad Max 2, I saw it when I was about 8 (at the time I think it was rated 18) but the violence didn't phase me at all ... what changed my life in a memorable way is one scene, where one of the baddies dies and his boyfriend is so overcome by grief and rage that he goes completely off his rocker.
It impressed on me, as a kid growing up in a conservative area at a time when it was illegal for schools to discuss LGBT relationships, that boys could genuinely love other boys and, logically, that meant that girls could really love other girls so I didn't have to spend my life alone and unloved.
I honestly think George Miller would be totally chuffed to hear this.
Possibly, though the original MM2 script painted the baddies as having lots of people in their ranks who were scary because they were gay.
None of the Mad Max films have had a positive LGBT character depiction in them, and only very very scant POC
Everything Everywhere All At Once
I'm trying to think which Dragon Ball Z movie I saw first lol, pretty sure it was World's Strongest, maybe Dead Zone or Fusion Reborn
But definitely the first DBZ movie I saw (which was before I saw the show), pretty much all of my life-long friends I met because of DBZ lol
serpico (1973) made me realize that this whole “to serve and protect“ on the side of cop cars wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
Jurassic Park.
It was the first time that visual effects truly made me immersed in the movie. It also woke me up to how movies can be more than just entertainment and have messages that can resonate. Even though it was a blockbuster summer movie, it turned movies into potential art for me. I never looked at a movie the same way after.
The Fountain - Letting go and embracing what happens, rather than what you want to happen
